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Software Engineer, Robotics

Mercor · San Francisco

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Applied AIonsite$130k–$500k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build pipelines delivering real-world robotics data to frontier AI labs.
  • Own delivery end to end from schema design to validation at petabyte scale.
  • Turn evolving client needs into reusable components for physical AI.

What they offer

  • Bi-annual performance bonus
  • Equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15k relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus if within 0.5 miles of office
  • $1.5K monthly meals stipend
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
  • $200 monthly wellness reimbursement
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance

Ideal candidate

A delivery-minded backend engineer who thrives in ambiguity and customer-facing work, iterating fast with product and ops to ship reliable data pipelines for physical AI.

Requirements

  • Strong backend and data engineering fundamentals in a modern language (Python, Go, Rust) and comfort operating production systems on AWS and GCP
  • Experience building and owning high-volume data pipelines, not just contributing to them
  • Experience with large binary formats, streaming ingestion, distributed batch processing, and object storage economics
  • Customer-facing instincts: you can lead a technical conversation, ask the right questions, and push back when a request is unreasonable
  • Comfort working through ambiguity and shipping iteratively with a product team, where requirements evolve with the customers and data types
remote policy
5 days per week in-office, no remote

Lab profile

About Mercor

AI data company organizing human expertise to train frontier models for the AI economy.

What they build

  • APEX benchmark family
  • Mercor Enterprise
  • Human expertise training data platform

Known for

  • Massive domain-expert network
  • Frontier model training infrastructure
  • Real-world professional work evaluation

Key facts

  • Millions of domain experts on platform
  • Pays over $4M per day to experts
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